JOHN MacENULTY

(Eman8tions)

· Everything is a lesson. The macrocosm is in the microcosm. Every process is the same.

In the realm of manifestations, the physical universe, complex interactions, it gets confusing.

We think that things have become different because they appear different.

But everything operates according to the Tao, the divine core of being that is invisible, untouchable.

Each event leads back to the center, but we are often too blind to see it, too lazy, too self absorbed, too desire filled.

The Tao is in all things.

Total simplification of your life is realizing that.

There is no advanced course in awareness, only the stillness.

It is in the stillness of your soul that you will connect the Tao to all things.

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· What is the relevance of high esoteric understanding to daily problems?

Wondering about the nature of God, or what is truth or love, doesn’t directly solve a problem in relationship or life understanding. Philosophical and metaphysical issues might even be regarded as escape pods from responsibility, drugs, or irresponsible abstractions.

Poetry, the same.

But something crucial happens in the wonder world.

By going outside conventional reality we allow the brain to make new connections.

New ideas flow out of these experiences. This is where freedom is birthed.

Resting doesn’t get work done, but it prepares us for further effort.

There was a study done a few years ago that suggested that the most productive workers spent a large percentage of their time looking out the window.

It is known that positive thoughts change body chemistry, increase blood flow, and are generally beneficial in every way to the organism.

Negative thoughts produce constricted blood vessels, high blood pressure, depression etc.

So I would say dream on. You don’t know what you’ll find, and the process itself is healing.

And you’ll love love when you find it hovering in perfect abstraction just waiting for you to incorporate it into your being.

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· We are vulnerable souls, subject to all manner of abusive behavior. It

surrounds us, attacks us, talks to us, convinces us we are wrong and it is right, tries to teach us submission to its ways.

We so easily become victims, often convinced that in so doing we are actually following a higher path. We are suggestible, gullible, trusting, such easy prey, especially if it starts when we are very young.

Then the pattern is set in us and the abusers, who are only copying those who abused them, find us and continue the process.

We can argue, fight, resist, think, study, get therapy, but in the final

analysis loving ourselves is the only way out. When we truly love ourselves we will not be fooled by abusive behavior.

The surest path to that self love is self centering, finding our own link,

communion with the soul level of consciousness, the place where divine

reality has no rules, only the beauty and energy of loving consciousness.

Go into the stillness. Find the center of yourself. Begin to feel the beauty within and around you.

When you do that, you'll not be falling for negative energy domination

telling you that you are unworthy.

There is a big difference between spiritual humility and personal

unworthiness.

Most abusers actually think they are somehow doing the right thing and will be very hurt by your discovery of the beautiful truth of yourself. Don't be fooled. It is part of the pattern, the cycle of abuse, but it is always genuine.

When we find that we are the beauty and light of the world and allow the divine to shine through us, we are done with abuse, started on the path of love. The rest is just the details, the working out, the manifesting, no matter how difficult it may be.

Love yourself and all will be well; a lot of work, but all will be well.

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· Someone in the throes of an addiction cannot give you their full attention, love, or performance. Always, a part of them is in service to their obsession.

Addiction is a wide path, covering many variations. Even in sexual addiction you will be denied access to that love. Whatever it is that the addict wants will always come between you and him.

And, of course, if you are the addict, you know what it is to sacrifice those you love for your obsession.

The simplest form is the starting of disagreements, fights when anyone comes between the addict and his obsession.

So it is basically hopeless until the addict makes a decision to change. If

anyone else tries to change him he will take no prisoners.

The basic nature of addiction is a desire not to face oneself. So the drug of choice can be work, booze, pot, cigarettes, sex, anything in which the addict can escape from his inner demons. Even religion can be a drug.

The only solution is a spiritual awakening and a realization that one must face fears. Otherwise, the addict is always a fraction of himself and you are only an obstacle, no matter how it appears.

The solution for the codependent is the same as for the addict only the

codependent's drug is the addict himself.

Here's the kicker: The drug will never give satisfaction, just self

destruction.

Gambling, even the news can be your drug, whatever is between you and the divine.

An addict can't sit still. It's that simple. He may appear to, but he is

really just waiting for the chance to break away and get his drug.

If you can't be still, how can you truly love?

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· The words negative and bad are used in many ways.

In a spiritual sense all is one and therefore what we often call negative is
really just a part of the fabric, necessary and intrinsic to the reality in
which we live, love and grow. So there's one meaning and set of connotations of good and evil.

In the physical universe there are efforts made to do certain things, so when our purpose is served we call it good. When our purpose is not being served we call it bad, negative, or even evil. But it is in that range of meaning, the progression of the negative scale of values, what we feel has been subtracted from our lives. So there is another meaning and set of
connotations for good and evil.

When we speak we can mean either of the two ways of speaking.

So communication is the big thing.  When one person is speaking spiritually, meaning that there is no negative energy, no evil, a person speaking in conventional physical law, limited self interest, might think that person simply did not understand what was going on.

Conversely, the spiritual person, hearing someone speak of wrong things might make the assumption that the other person had little or no spiritual
awareness. It may very well be a semantic issue, simply the way we use words.

The fact of the matter is that there is such a thing as death. What it means to someone may vary widely. But the measurable physical event of death does, in fact, occur.

We may say it is only an illusion, that the person still exists in spirit,
has gone in consciousness to the next level. There are philosophies that
exclude the word death from the vocabulary of valid discussion.

What can happen then is that people simply go out of communication as they each insist on their definition of the words.

Communication goes so far beyond words that it is virtually impossible to
speak it clearly. We need to listen at deep levels to understand what people are saying. Each of us has a story. Our meaning is in our stories.

Our stories tell the tale and the meanings of our words are revealed by
knowing each other, into and beyond the words we use.

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· Recovery is an amazing thing. The healing process can change us at such deep levels that the old ways are unimaginable to those who didn't know us when.

Listen carefully to the stories we tell, for we are not the same people who
experienced them. Nor will you be the same person who experienced your own past.

Each moment is new, alive, and vital when we learn to face and let go of the past. And only by facing it fully can we release it.

Time may give the appearance of healing. But time without the healing
process, the facing and letting go, may simply be the incorporation, the
unconscious inclusion of our past energies in attitudes or nervous ticks,
fears, sensitivities we do not understand.

I was with dear friends who met to honor and commune with a friend who is awaiting a medical diagnosis. We told our stories, connected, loved our pasts and the present, acknowledged the growth and beauty that flows from that.

We are all new people, rooted in a spiritual principle that has always been
within us, but manifesting in wildly various ways. Recovery is the process of finding that common center in each other and then finally in ourselves.

We are surrounded by angels, the voices of the divine presence.

Friends in healing remind us of that beautiful truth, that God speaks to us
through other people.

We gather for more than communication.

We gather for communion.

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· Fascination is one of the most delightful human experiences.

Fascination floats freely in consciousness and looks at things, enjoys them.

To be fascinated is to be entranced, a state of mind, perhaps even a spell.

Then we focus on the object of our fascination.

Fascination is what we do in our free time though, unless we are extremely
fortunate and it is a part of our actual work. But usually fascination is a
moment of stopping work.

And fascination can be internal or external. We see something inside us or
outside us and we stop to wonder, ruminate.

And fascination can be an end product of meditation too, when we empty
ourselves of all thought and something moves forward and captures our
interest, growing within as we return to the world, our new discovery fresh
in mind.

Fascination is a doorway.

Tell someone they fascinate you and it is a beautiful and flattering
compliment.

Use fascination as a mantra. Meditate on the idea of fascination. Look it up in the dictionary.

One of the delicious concepts to have in your mind.

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· Absolute purity of thought is not something that I am willing to require of
myself. We are responsible for actions, not thoughts.

It has been said that it is as bad to lust in our hearts as it is to act upon
it. Hmmm....It occurs to me that if it is nowhere nearly as good to just lust in my heart, how could it be as bad?

Thoughts are a part of the purification process. The mind is the laboratory
where we need to create sacred acceptance of all things. If we block our
thoughts we will block our growth.

I have periods of absolute beauty and purity within. I have them because I
allow all thoughts to entertain me. The good will sustain. The bad will not
have the substance of structure to continue.

I believe in my inherent goodness, that if I allow an open playing field for
thoughts the good and the beautiful will emerge as the true reality. The
negative will be surpassed as the divine energy fulfills itself.

If I try to pretend that all is well, perfect and pure within me, I will be
denying my inner shadow and I will end up in a narrow and shallow
consciousness, the grave of limited life.

Creativity is the full visualization of the life experience. The whole story
is one of healing, love and truth. The full ramifications of all of this are
impossible to describe in a few short sentences.

Let me love you and trust you to see into these ideas, contemplate and
understand, allow everything within to evolve. The pure and the impure work together in process as the divine evolution reveals again and again.

I will not beat myself up for bad thoughts. I will allow them to reveal
themselves to me for what they are fully and I will trust the divine to
protect, love, and nurture me in the life process.

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These are samples of Eman8tions - a daily message available from John MacEnulty at Eman8tions@aol.com

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